Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam


Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is an American author of fantasy fiction active since 2012. According to Stufflebeam, her last name "might mean 'stump leg'... or 'one who resides behind a stump'," characterizing both as "somewhat accurate."

Biography

Stufflebeam is a native of Texas, where she currently resides after two years in Oregon. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine in July 2013. She coordinates the annual Arts & Words Collaborative Show in Fort Worth, Texas.

Works

Stufflebeam's work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld Magazine, Hobart, Lightspeed, The Masters Review, Monster Verse, Nebula Awards Showcase 2018, and The Toast. With her partner Peter Brewer she has collaborated on Strange Monsters, an audio fiction-jazz collaborative album.

Audio album

"Everything Beneath Your" received an honorable mention for the 2015 James Tiptree Jr. Award. "The Orangery" was nominated for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. She has also placed or been short- or long-listed for the 2016 Selected Shorts/Electric Lit Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, the 2015 British Science Fiction Association Awards, the 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest, and the 2015 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review's Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.